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ANNUAL REPORT: 2010-2011 Sarah is excited to continue working with many of the same organizations as she did in the spring, as well as to begin working with new organizations and new service opportunities. She began the academic year as Community Plunge leader with fellow Park Scholar Isabel Galupo. The two volunteered at the SPCA, mulching and moving rocks, as well as at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, where they weeded the gardens. She continues to be very involved with the Family Reading Partnership, Project Generations, and Longview Literary Circle. Every week she reads at Coddington Daycare and Longview. Through Project Generations, she was matched up with an elderly member of the community, with whom she visits weekly as well. As far as new involvements, she is most excited about Concert for a Cure and the American Advertising Federation (AAF). Both allow her to use skills learned in the classroom to help members of the community. She is on the marketing team for Concert for a Cure. Through AAF she is helping to design new advertising materials for Cayuga Addiction Recover Services. Moriah jumped right back into community service on the Ithaca campus and in the community by leading first-year students in service activities during Community Plunge. She walks dogs at the SPCA and cultivates literacy by reading to preschoolers through the Traveling Books Program. She also teaches English to a group of migrant farm workers in a cultural exchange facilitated by IC Intercambios. Moriah participates in a number of clubs including Active Minds, which reduces the stigma surrounding mental health, and Birthday Wish, which serves disadvantaged children. She hopes to further explore the issue of affordable housing as a member of Habitat for Humanity, and through promotion of the nonprofit Better Housing for Tompkins County with Megaphone Media Productions. Moriah improves her media production and journalism skills through working as the assistant editor for the ICTV show Every Ithacan Has A Story and by writing for Buzzsaw magazine. She also assists with design and layout for The Ithacan, and is on the staff of Her Campus Ithaca, Ithaca’s online magazine for women. Sarah Parker Integrated Marketing Communications East Marion, NY Moriah Petty Television-Radio St. Paul, MN Lindsey is excited to be back at Ithaca College. She continues to volunteer with Megaphone Media Productions at the Community School of Music and Arts. As senator, Lindsey serves on the Student Government Association’s Communication and Community Service Committees. As advertising chair on the Student Activities Board (SAB), she volunteers at SAB’s free events. Additionally, Lindsey works as a student leadership consultant in the Office of Student Engagement and Multicultural Affairs. In this position, she is coordinating The Business and Organizational Leadership Development Conference (BOLD). Lindsey is also working to implement the program, “Leading at IC.” As a member of Food for Thought and Habitat for Humanity, her passion for community service is filled with activities. As part of IC Food for Thought, she helped plan and participated in the Walk for Plumpy’nut. Lindsey’s extracurricular activities include serving as the communications director for the International Association of Business Communicators, public relations chair for ICTV’s Pop Quiz, and the assistant producer for ICTV’s Big Red Faceoff. Lindsey Smith Television-Radio Medfield, MA After interning with Girls on the Run, a nonprofit organization that empowers girls through running, and backpacking for a month in Wyoming this summer, Abby is excited to be back among the Ithaca community. Along with her commitment to the Women’s Club Soccer team, she is co-coaching “Fire Phoenix,” a youth soccer team, through the Ithaca Youth Bureau. On Thursdays, she wakes up early to get her hands dirty with the Youth Farm Project where she harvests crops and prepares food for storage, as well as working with the farm on outreach and product development. Abby is also working with ELAN, an Environmental Leadership and Action Network, devoted to promoting environmental justice through grassroots action. This fall the group’s focus is “Operation Tiger,” a campaign to make IC’s paper procurement policy more environmentally sustainable. To exercise her love of journalism, she writes articles for Buzzsaw magazine and co-produces Every Ithacan Has A Story on ICTV. Abby will be studying abroad this spring in Tanzania through the School for International Training’s Wildlife Conservation and Political Ecology Program. Gabriella Sophir Television-Radio St. Louis, MO 19
PARK SCHOLAR PROGRAM Samantha Towle Cinema & Photography Three Bridges, NJ Samantha Towle is excited to be back at Ithaca College, as she has enjoyed volunteering with multiple organizations at Ithaca College and in the Ithaca community, including: the SPCA, South Hill Elementary School, To Write Love on Her Arms, the Class Hosting Program, and the Harry Potter Alliance. Last spring she became a board member for the community service club Birthday Wish, and she also wrote for Buzzsaw magazine, directed a segment of ICTV’s Every Ithacan Has a Story, and was layout editor for the literary magazine Brink Of. Additionally, she acted in IC Players’ production “Play It Again, Sam.” Over the summer, Samantha took an art class at a local community college and traveled. This year, she is continuing many of her earlier volunteer projects. However, with her new involvement in Megaphone Media Productions, she will work with Better Housing for Tompkins County. Samantha will also now serve as an editor for ICTV’s Every Ithacan Has a Story as well as for the new show IC-IU. John Vogan Journalism Lynnwood, WA John is excited to begin his second year of media and service involvement in Ithaca, and to continue many of the activities with which he was involved last year. During the spring, John began working as a field reporter for ICTV’s Newswatch 16, which he is continuing this fall. He contributes articles for Buzzsaw magazine, Ithaca College’s alternative on-campus magazine, and is also a member of the Society of Professional Journalists. John continues his passion for singing in IC VoiceStream, Ithaca’s premier co-ed a cappella group, which performs multiple times throughout the year for a variety of functions in support of good causes. His community service this year includes volunteering bi-weekly at South Hill Elementary School, weekly readings with the elderly in the Longview Literary Circle, and Saturday builds with Habitat for Humanity. John is also actively involved with Food for Thought, an organization that fights hunger around the world through advocating awareness and raising funds to provide resources to those who need it most. In May, he was appointed secretary to the Food for Thought executive board. Gabriel Whiteman Cinema & Photography Toms River, NJ During the summer, Gabe volunteered with Caregiver Volunteers of Central Jersey (CVCJ), a local organization that helps the elderly continue a comfortable independent lifestyle. Gabe has volunteered for CVCJ for three years now, producing three short documentaries about the program along with grocery shopping for an elderly woman. Through the Ithaca Youth Bureau, Gabe volunteers as a coach for a fourth and fifth grade soccer team every Tuesday and Sunday. Gabe teaches his thirteen kids about the fundamentals of soccer and the importance of being a team player along with fellow Scholars Emily LaPierre and Connie Honeycutt. At South Hill Elementary School, Gabe acts as a positive role model in a kindergarten classroom. Each week, Gabe assists in a rotation where he teaches the kindergarten students about colors, numbers, etc. Lastly, Gabe is helping to produce a promotional video for The Discovery Trail, a partnership between eight local organizations that promotes the understanding of science, nature, and culture. 20
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